You will find that there quite a few points that ARE similar:
This list was compiled by a former mormon:
Mormonism is Closer to Islam than to Orthodox Christianity An ongoing issue as the Mormon Church attempts to polish its recently tarnished image is whether or not Mormons are truly Christians. Church leaders and most Mormons insist that the Mormon Church is Christian by definition because the Church teaches the divinity of Jesus Christ. Many orthodox Christians disagree that Mormons are "true" Christians because of a number of beliefs regarding God wherein Mormonism differs from orthodox Christianity.
In view of the growing concerns regarding the devastating effect of radical Islam on world peace and stability, Mormons might do well to consider the substantial similarities between Islam and Mormonism. Below are listed 23 such similarities. The list is based on my own study and conversations with Muslims. Similar lists exist in the internet. However, I have found none that are as extensive as the list below. Based on the fact that the list below is longer that any analogous list I could make for similarities between Mormonism and orthodox Christianity, I claim that Mormonism is closer to Islam. Can anyone come up with a longer list of similarities between Mormonism and orthodox Christianity?
23 Similarities between Mormonism and Islam:
- Both claim to be the restoration of the "true gospel" that had been lost,
- Both restorations involved visions,
- Both restorations were assisted by an angel,
- New Holy Scriptures were revealed to man from a book that exists in heaven,
- Both new scriptures claimed to be the perfect word of God,
- Multiple, inconsistent creation stories in the new revealed scripture,
- Practice of polygamy sanctioned at some point in both religions,
- Strict patriarchal authority in both religious and family life,
- Both religions are structured as effective theocracies,
- Both religions teach that Earth is to be cleansed by fire in the last days,
- Sanctions against use of alcohol and tobacco.
- Women relegated to secondary roles and subjected to the husband (or in Islam to any other male relative).
- Women encouraged to dress modestly, with sanctions against those who fail to do so.
--Both the Book of Mormon and the Koran contain stories and/or extended near-verbatim passages from the Bible.
- Both religions accept the Bible as scripture, but believe it to be corrupted in some ways and hold their revealed scriptures to be "more correct".
- In both Islam and Mormonism, apostasy condemns one to hell, and in Islam apostasy can require blood atonement (that is, the death of the apostate).
- Principle of blood atonement in Mormonism has analogs in Islam including death to apostates and the tradition of "honor killings". That is, there are certain sins which can only be atoned for by the shedding of blood. (Honor killings in Islam are usually visited upon young females.)
- Both of the revealed "perfect books" (Koran and Book of Mormon) were later revised to make them "more correct". Mohammad removed the "Satanic Verses" from the Koran, and more than a thousand changes have been made to the Book of Mormon since the original edition was printed.
- Both religions initially contained elements of polytheism, which were later removed ("Satanic Verses" from the Koran) or de-emphasized or denied such as man-to-God and Adam-God principles in Mormonism.
- Multiple heavens (7 in Islam and 3 plus additional degrees in Mormonism) where men can be accorded multiple wives (and / or concubines in Islam).
-Divided into two or more sects by disagreements over whether the right to lead the religion (succession) should be inherited, or when new leaders try to reform or update the basic tenets of the religion.
- Belief in the existence of "immortalized" or "translated" beings (The Three Nephites in Mormonism and the Immortal Imam in Islam) who still walk the earth waiting to be of assistance to the faithful in some future time of crisis.
- Joseph Smith and Muhammad both had a lust for young females. Both acted on these desires, and had multiple wives and mistresses / concubines as a matter of record.
- both have ritualized fasting required by all adherents.
- both nurture feelings of persecution and an "us vs them" attitude in adherents.
- both resort to ad campaigns to show how "Normal" their members are when they perceive that bad publicity is damaging their standing in the community.
Excuse me, Foxxy, but where is it stated that Mormons blow things up and kill people to make sure that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the way the world will be?
Mormons were beaten out of every town they ever lived in until they got into an area that was nothing that anyone else wanted. Just like the Native Americans, Mormons were persued until there was nowhere else to go.
You may have data that was valid 180 years ago, but for the most part, there is not an iota of truth in what you state. And for my own personal satisfaction, what is wrong with asking women and young women to dress modestly? Why should Mormons allow their young women to entice young men?
What’s wrong with abhorring the use of alcohol and tobacco?
I don’t know where you got this latest screed, but I pity you for your ignorance and willingness to accept anything that denigrates the LDS faith. Shame on you.